Pokemon changed FOREVER when I learned about this... 

As a shiny hunter I have huge respect for RNGers. It’s a totally different skill set, whereas my hobby consists of bashing my head at a wall until it gives way :D

Amazing video! If anyone is willing to take up Jefes idea of trying out RNG, I always suggest starting from your favorite game in the series! Replay it with a new twist and discover something new about it to love.

Honestly, RNG manipulation is just more fun in my opinion. I've been a huge shiny hunter for a long time and when I learned about RNG manipulation while desperate hunting a turtwig in platinum (months with no luck), it became a new way to approach these hunts and introduce new challenges. Hell, I even pulled out my old gameboy micro and did some repairs so that I could finally get a shiny mew in emerald (not gonna lie, I was a but teary-eyed when I got it). Thanks to RNG manipulation, I've been playing old games that hadn't seen the light of day in years.

RNG gave new life to how I play Pokemon, I started a few years ago and still do it to this day. I'm currently in the process of RNGing a team of competitive baby Pokemon in HGSS for use in Battle Revolution's Little Cup mode (Battle Revolution in general is a lot more fun when you can actually build and use optimal teams).

I really love how what was supposed to be just a simple child's game ended up having huge meta theory and can be played in so many incredibly unique ways. Thay is the true heart of pokemon. Choice.

I was pretty confused when I heard a large part of the community considered RNG abuse on par with hacking. RNG is basically just using a look up table to get a Pokémon you want. It's barely any different from using an encounter table for an area, aside from being way more powerful and more difficult.

Beautiful explanation. I have my shiny Arceus because of your tutorials and efforts. RNG manipulation truly is science and anyone calling it hacking is ignorant of the effort and passion that the community has put into getting legitimate shiny pokémon. Thank you for making such high quality videos on the topic.

Omg I got chills up my spine when the battery message happened and those lights and sound effects you added because that encapsulated exactly how I felt the first time I ever saw that!! Haha, great job! Amazing video, too~

Loved this video. It was a joy rediscovering gen 3 with tutorials from you & Blisy

Little did we know, this journey would last our lifetimes! I was 10 when I first started back in 2007, I'm 26 now!

I just watched this again and it's so good lol

such a great intro to the rng community! your guides are perfect!

Quality video Papa and definitely rings true for me. My ‘second finding’ of Pokemon was when I played through Soul Silver, RNG manipping at every possible chance - starter, the gift pokemon you can receive at the second? Pokémon centre, all legends, any other gifts etc Also just wanted to say you’re one of a couple of creators who have inspired me to start my own content!

Thanks!Need More Content like THIS!! Love the work.

This found me at a perfect time. I played gen 3-6 ish growing up and Pokémon slowly lost charm over that time. As an adult, I started learning about IVs, EVs, natures, etc. That made the games a lot more interesting and deep for me, as I thought they were super simple baby games. I just started a fresh save of Platinum for the nostalgia, and within a day or two found yours & blisy’s videos about RNG manipulation and I haven’t been more interested in diving headfirst into Pokémon like this since I was little. Can’t wait to learn more and try it out!!

Incredible video, I decided to try RNG manipulation a few years ago and could never come back, it was the same feeling as when I first discovered competitive pokemon, it's like another game inside the game :D The pokemon RNG community is amazing, thanks to people like you and blisy I can enjoy the games I already love even more.

Awesome video!!! Subbed and excited to see what you do next!

These videos are so entertaining dude. Killing it.

My favourite thing about RNG manipulation is the interactive nature of it, instead of mindlessly resetting the game over and over for hours.

I love how RNG manipulate is exchanging luck for skill, even if manipulation is the unintended way unlike luck

Succeeded in my First RNG Arceus hunt yesterday, thanks to your video on it! Thank you! Keep producing amazing content! See you in Scarlet and Violet!

Wonderful video, rng manipulation revived my love for pokemon 4 years ago. As you mentioned there are so many new things to do that you wouldn't normally do.

Damn, hooked me with the title and it was worth the watch. Great video my dude!

Absolutely love the thumbnail haha! Fantastic video, a really detailed explainer into rng manipulation. You and Blisy have been doing wonders with your videos over the last year by teaching newbies how to rng manip. Looking forward to more uploads!

Thank u so much! I learn so much from your video about community and new approach to play pokemon❤

You've sold me, man. I'm gonna give it a shot this weekend. Best of luck (haha) on your own RNG hunts!

+spends hundreds of hours learning to manipulate frame perfect inputs+ “Wow u lazy cheater” Honestly, I have nothing but respect for people who put in the time to figure out this sort of stuff. I personally would never use it because I like the satisfaction of the reward after not knowing how many attempts it will take, but I don’t blame people who find it rewarding to learn the inner mechanics and work them to their advantage, either.

So I've been shiny hunting for over 10 years now and I'm trying to do it as "legitimate" as possible. I wouldn't even change my system's date or time to hunt specific shinies, let alone use third party hardware/software. That being said, I completely understand that those are the rules I subject myself to and that it's completely fine if others wanna play the games differently. After all radar shiny hunting often felt the most rewarding as you actually need to pay attention and use more than the two braincells you usually use for other shiny hunts, in that regard it's kinda like rng manipulation. But to me the very most important part of shiny hunting is the randomness, which rng manip takes away. I also think that most of the people that do rng manipulation aren't the ones that try to figure it out themselves like you do, but rather follow along youtube videos to get a shiny faster or just have a bit of fun getting a shiny. Even tho shiny hunting isn't really competitive like speedrunning is, I think that there are categories to it as well and if everyones upfront about their rng manips there really shouldn't be a problem. All in all I think that some people should just be more open minded to rng manipulation and just see it as a separate category that doesn't make their own shinies less of an achievement.

glad that you're back! :)

Great vid man, got me interested in trying this myself

This video was so awesome 👏🏽 good content as always Jefe 💙

Calling it cheating makes no sense, you are doing everything you can with what the game gives you to not cheat. Huge respect

Viewing the understanding, uncovering and application of deeply complex and well hidden mathematics, instead of dismissing it as "random", as cheating, just leaves me at a loss for words.

Always love your videos Big Papa! Glad to see you back ✨

Gameshark/ActionReplay/PKhex ect are essentially breaking into your Game with tools RNG is within the Games base programming and does take some skill to tap into in order to use properly, like Speedrunners mastering In-game Glitches to help them beat games faster. I have my reservations about abusing it for everything, but as long as it only utilizes the Game's interior functionality. It's fair Game. May not be the intended way, but I'm not going to call it out like I would Genning.

Whether or not you consider RNG manipulation cheating comes down to your definition of cheating. I'm perfectly fine with exploiting features that are already in the game. To me that's not cheating, it's inventive and smart. However, I am not ok if you need to use an external device running non-nintendo licensed software to manipulate the game's code and acquire something that would otherwise be unobtainable. If you don't want to use RNG manipulation then don't but then don't complain about the legitimacy of RNG manipulated pokemon because you spent hundreds of hours hunting a single shiny pokemon. If that frustrates you then you clearly regret your decision and wasted your time - that's on you. If you're content with the time it took then the method through which someone else achieved the same goal shouldn't bother you.

I think there's a very fascinating dichotomy within the pokemon games. On one hand, the IV system has driven me nuts for years. For christ's sake, why is it that the stats have to be 0-31, ON TOP OF getting the right nature.. it's ridiculous and for many years has prevented people from getting certain mons with competitive stats because the sheer math just isn't on your side. It's like, why does it have to be this way? Why does it have to be so difficult to get a "perfect" pokemon sometimes? But somehow, I've grown to love it. And outsmarting the odds with the RNG tools just feels so good. If it were so easy to get a perfect pokemon, there wouldn't be the satisfaction and pride when you boot up your game and open your party or box to find your latest successful RNG "project" sitting there waiting for you. Against all odds, you have in your hands something you once only wished of having. That's what makes it so cool. Approaching each pokemon RNG differently... which tools, techniques, games, egg moves, etc. It all adds up to something almost more fun than the game itself.

Great video literally watched every second of it no skips keep it dude subbed earned

I have resently found blisys tutorials and videos, soon afterwards io got yours reccomended and I really wanted to give rng manip a try. i now have put over 40 hours of gameplay into emerlad in the last week, just me, playing though the game and trying to hit a shiny frame with decent stats (also from battle videos) from time to time. I even bought emerald only for getting a shiny rayquaza and now, trough your and blisys videos i now have so much more and most importantly, i had so much fun doing all of these things. I'm now aiming to start rnging in gen5 as well (i already have done a bit in gen4) and i'm looking forward to trying out some of the manipulations i have seen on BDSP from your channel. Keep up the great work and see you in the next video!

Hope this video blows you up even more. You and blissy be like my step dads that taught me RNG. Thanks dads. Have a good day jefe.

absolutely brilliant video! I'm a bigtime shiny hunter and I couldn't agree more that RNG is just another method to obtain them. while it's true that if someone who manipulated RNG was trying to pass off a shiny as full odds luck is kinda shady, at the end of the day a shiny is only as important as you make it. that's why I spend weeks and months on end hunting, because the strife is what makes the shiny worth it to me. a couple months back I finally got a shiny Cranidos after 104hrs in BDSP, and it's special to me because I know what went into it, not just purely because of its rarity. Great video dude and I'm definitely gonna hit up the stream from now on!

As someone who has done both rng manipulation and shiny hunting and has enjoyed both i think they both have their merits. Rng manipulation requires a lot more skill and knowledge about the games and I love learning about how people reverse engineered the games to understand how the rng works. Ive only done it once to get the cute charm glitch on platinum and it took just over 3 hours of attempts for me to hit the seed I needed so I really respect people who put their time and effort into rng manipulation. Shiny hunting on the other hand is about the journey and its all gambling. And personally i really enjoy that, it can be really thrilling when you finally find a shiny that you've spent weeks to months looking for in the older games and that is what has me hooked.

Dang this video is great. Between you and blissy, I have found new joy in my old gen 3 gba carts. Started a new save for emerald a few weeks ago with a shiny mudkip and now I got a shiny latias, shiny groudon, and shiny rayquaza. Followed your tutorial vid for ACE and unlocked old sea map, eon ticket, etc. all successfully. Rn waiting on frame 1mil+ to get a modest shiny kyogre. Needless to say that thank you and the community for getting me excited to play pokemon again

5:03 I bought a Pokémon Gold cartridge about 10 years ago and the battery is still alive, but some parts of the audio don't sound off anymore.

Very good video, extremely informative. Kept my attention!

Fantastic video! When I first heard about rng, I soft-resetted for Lugia in SS until I got it shiny so I can find its ivs to determine my sid. From there, it's been RNG central! (Sapphire, HG/SS, Platinum, B/W & B/W 2) :D I personally enjoyed it because (without tid/sid manip), I feel like resetting for that Lugia earned and granted me the ability to rng haha And of course I always tid/sid manip now! :P

Man good job on uploading this video it shows your passion about something you love and this is what matters keep up the good work you just earned yourself a subscriber

whats up man I just want to let you know ive been watching your videos for a while now and theyve helped me out a lot. I just watched your most recent sc/vi video and i decided to watch this one at the end im glad i did. keep up the awesome content man thank you

My first shiny was a sentret that was lost to a dead Silver cartridge. It would be so cool to use rng and get my pink buddy back

This video is beautiful love your stuff Jefe.

I have just discovered this aspect to the Pokémon games and it's very interesting. As a casual, I'm still trying to understand Natures, IVs and EVs lol 😂 However, I believe RNG is not cheating. Rather, it's understanding how the game was coded and exploiting it to get the desired result. Some are just salty that all the time & efforts they've spent could be done in a faster, effective, and calculated manner.

You rock man! I used your guide to RNG the Colosseum Bonus Disk Jirachi!

this was a great video! i've never been into to rng manipulation but this was a super informative. really really good stuff!

This is why you keep my love for RNGing shinies. Thanks Jefe. You are the man.

Great video man!

Really cool video. I started to look into rng manipulation with your video on shiny arceus. Since then i wanted to try more and more because it was really fun and made things reachable out of a sudden. Thanks to you, blisy and countless other cool guides online i managed to rng a lot of cool pokemon like shiny mew, deoxys, jirachi, manaphy and many more. I can not thank you enough for showing me the door to the rng world. It really is something else. Keep up the good work!

I used Blisy's video about the Cute Charm glitch and have been loving picking up Soul Silver again, and pickex up Pokemon Channel to try out the RNG for shiny Jirachi! Its been really fun going back and trying new stuff with old games aha

Shiny Hunting is pulling a slot machine lever, RNG manip is researching the slot machine internals to guarantee big payouts.

God, this takes me back. I remember learning the ropes of RNG manipulation with Gen 7 as my start, and that has been my preferable game to do RNG in. But, the learning curve, as quite nuts, and I am not exactly a person with quite a lot of rhythm, if shiny 0 speed IV Stakataka taking me a month is anything to go by. And I must say, you have done quite a phenomenal job explaining the inner machinations of how RNG manipulation works, and why it is legal within the competitive scene. It always baffles me to this day that people still see this as cheating, and lazy, regardless that mastering this craft can take many, many days. Specially if you do this sort of stuff across different generations, as not all games are created exactly equal in how you can approach it. And even then, there’s always something new hiding in the corner, for many years all we could RNG manipulate in Sword and Shield were raids, until the community figured out how to RNG wild Pokémon, and learn your secret ID from it as well; and in Gen 3, I think the painting stuff was a rather recent discovery as well. I hope this community keeps on thriving, and evolving, across all generations.

Actually, I had discovered this while playing on MyBoy in my phone. I noticed with the save and load function, that emerald pokemon encounter was random with every step, but Firered had a set amount of grass you had to walk in order to encounter pokemon. If I performed the same action in the exact same time, I would even encounter the same pokemon. This functioned so in catching, moves hitting and other rng related events like battle tower teams. pretty coool

What you do is amazing, pure gold and math science. I don't even play Pokemon at all, but I'm stunning about all you did here. You got a new subscriber.

Fantastic video. Great reference for why RNG manipulation is fascinating and fun!

Here from blissys channel. Subbed. Good job sandwich man

20 years i know this game and I've never heard of this before! Thanks for this video!

i learned all this shit, just to pass the 100 win streak in battle tower in hgss

god the WISHMKR Jirachi was one of the most exciting shinies i've gotten in my whole life. Watching your Quick and Dirty guide on it was what made me want to pick up RNG Manipulation.

I loved this video - thank you!

Great video! Im still gona shiny hunt the good old way but Im def getting perfect IV pokemon for my team! You can't even imagine how I felt after discovering that Its basicly impossible to get perfect pokemon by soft reseting so having this neat way to get them that still envolves patience and skill is just perfect!!

Just this past month or two I discovered RNG Manip through you and blisy and through much confusion and tedious efforts honing my skills (and acquiring the necessary knowledge like zigzagoon is generated 142 frames after starter in Hoenn, shoutout my 20 some uncatchable shinies ahhh) I FINALLY GOT MY SHINY MUDKIP in my all time favorite Pokémon , Emerald. As blisy's comment says, try it out on an old favorite and find something new to love and look forward to with every static encounter possibly ;) Love my shiny swampert play through I will be trying for the legendaries soon and to try and understand sweet scenting with an unknown SID or figure out my SID next. Safari shiny hunting REs as a new angle to play and try for too!

Didn’t realize how involved and interesting RNG manips were, thought perfect frame timing was borderline wizardry thanks for helping convince me otherwise

AMAZING video, I honestly haven't played a Pokémon game in a long time but am seriously considering it now!

Nice channel man :D

great video please make more !

RNG manupulation is SO technical and hard, if you get it to work you DESERVE that shiny.

Thanks for this video. I had no idea this was a thing until I saw this in my recommended.

Even if you prefer SRing for shinies, still a good idea to know how this stuff works so you can at least know that if you are SRing on Emerald or dead battery RS for a shiny your odds are in all intents and purposes 0 since your shiny frame is set and probably not in the first 1000 frames.

Epic video, already do a lot of RNGs thanks to Blissy, and now this motivates me even more, truly inspiring video Papa Jefe. And i also agree hacking takes out all the new puzzle fun away.

Great video, Sold!

Great video! I am truly amazed by your skills. As a shiny hunter, I would have probably switched to RNG a long time ago if only I had the patience to set it up and a natural rhythm. xD Instead, I'm almost half-done with my living national dex with three RNGed mythicals (Mew, Jirachi, Manaphy) and the Hoenn starters, on which I learned to use the tools. Still, I needed the assistance of Lego Mindstorms - because I could never hit the perfect frame. The fact that you can do it repeatedly and on different systems is mind-blowing!

Terrific video!! 😎

Great vid!!

I'm a fan and have received several shiny mons from this man's videos! Keep up the content dude!

My first experience was Pokémon Red in the Game Boy Pocket kit - Pokémon Red/Blue and Game link cable. Great video!

Glorious video Papa, I am your fan. Thank you for being part of this amazing community!

I just finished rng manip. all shiny shadow pokemon in colosseum over 4 months (very casual playing it). going for ribbon master on a couple of them but definitely would have taken years to get just half as much with stock rng

Hatching eggs for stats and shiny is super relaxing to for me. Great to help you fall asleep early if that's what you're trying to do 🤣🤣 I've been trying to hatch a shiny snom and I can feel it's going to be in the next box.. it can get addictive. Sometimes it feels like gambling or like scratching a scratch card hoping to win

I always hacked Pokémon simply because I (and certainly no one) have the time it takes to create teams and teams of perfect Pokémons. I used many tools, since DPP. I stopped playing in Gen 6. Some years later, I discovered RNG because I wanted to buy some hack device and I wasn't able to do so. Frustrated, I searched "perfect Poké without hacks" and found the rabbit hole of RNG manipulation. After years, YEARS of wanting a shiny Treecko on my SoulSIlver, today I have boxes of others Shinies alongside him with them. I don't compete anymore, only play competitively Gen 1 on Showdown, but my cartridges (specially SoulSIlver, my personal gem) is full of RNG Pokés. There is simply no reason to spend so much time creating just one team. In competitive you use a lot more than one team. Most teams use legendaries (Thundurus, Raikou and alike), and to get them perfect is terribly long. With RNG you can shorten this ridiculously big time. When we are kids, it is fine to breed and all that... I think that the only games that you can REALLY breed competitively is Gen 6 onwards. Before that, just use RNG. Specially if like me and 90% of the Pokémon fanbase you're already an adult, and probably with a kid. Not only it seems stupid spend so much time to create Pokés to battle, it seems nonsense. Just get it and play. If you want to hunt Shinies, do it with your time. No problem. But play competitively and breeding manually isn't a show of strenght, is a show of stupidity. Amazing video, dude! I didn't know you, and now I already love! :D

Terrific Video!

What a beautiful thoughtful video.

KEEP IT UP!!!!! Never give up youtube! love your videos!

W video. I came here after the BDSP RNG guide. People vastly underestimate how much skill RNGing takes. It took me days to get one shiny, but I knew that I was using my time in a worthwhile manner to be more efficient. It’s great.

You convinced me! RNG Manips should get more respect, its as cool as any other part of competitive Pokemon!

never heard of any of this before. It's super cool, but I'll never treat shines as anything more than that random wtf moment that happens every 70th time you replay a pokemon game. I know Wormadam's not the most loved pokemon, but the shiny burmy I randomly got has become one of my favorite team members in brilliant diamond lol

Honestly, I feel like it's super fascinating how much information and research goes into something like this. Luck is boring. Knowledge is exciting. Keep on going!

I use RNG manipulation, glitches, action replays, etc. I have no time for the game to decide whenever it wants to give me what I need.

A little late to catching this video in particular, but I'm in the middle of doing a Nuzlocke + Living Dex quest through the entire series. I've been playing since Pokemon Yellow when I was 6 years old, and finally decided I wanted to work on a Living Form Dex, with the added personal caveat that I want to catch every single Pokemon (when and where possible) from their original games (so Gen 1 from RBY, Gen 2 from GSC, etc.), and not just all from later generations. To keep it interesting, I'm doing Hardcore Nuzlockes along the way, since I've always wanted to do challenge runs like that too (wanna do a Monotype Bug run at some point). That said, once I finish my Nuzlockes, I start working on my Living Dex, as well as do any Shiny Hunting I feel like doing along the way, and while I've gotten some really cool stuff, like every single Odd Egg Shiny, and even a couple Shiny Pokemon transferred up from YELLOW, it really exploded for me with RNG manipulation in Gen 3. Your videos, as well as imablisy's, have been instrumental to me. I was familiar with RNG manipulation already, to some extent, having practiced it a bit back in Pokemon Black ages ago. But Gen 3 manipulation is another beast, especially with A.C.E. added in, and it's SO FUN!! I got myself a legit Shiny Deoxys and Shiny WISHMKR Jirachi as well, plus my own little Yard Rat! Anyway, thanks for all the cool stuff, dude! I love your videos!

I’m on the fence with save editing. All of the shinies I got are legit but the ability to save edit mystery gifts that change the game somewhat is a life saver. Getting the Eon ticket in ORAS in 2022 is baffling to me.

Love your point of view. I don't think it's necessarily cheating because all you really do is make getting your shiny a lot sooner and your not making or cloning to bring to the game. I do think it's unfair to those of us who don't know how to do it but that gets made up by the way everyone who is able to do this shares it with the rest of us. I really appreciate the people who take the time to help people like me understand how to do this. Newly subscribed 💐

Im old school. Started with blue on the brick gameboy. Now on legends arceus post completion alpha shiny hunting. I have never used or sanctioned use of rng, hacks, or any other chieating in my game because i lost an important save file mew cloning in silver. That said, thats my game, and how i play. I have masuda method bred 25 shinies, one of which is a flygon with all 6 stats perfect, this, shes my gem. I enjoy the grind, i enjoy rhe chase, and i treasure my rewards. I will keep playing this way. All rng peeps, keep playing your way too, because eventually pokemon as a company will be okay with it. Nothing wrong with wanting to battle at the highest tiers of the game, thats where epic stories live!! Great vid, and i love the lack of animosity. Very objective and clear. Well done!!

Just stumbled on this vid I’m subbed now and will try out RNG lol